# Ken Shimizu

> Staff Android Software Engineer at Airbnb

Location: Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kenshimizu

Android engineer with full stack experience.

Experienced in process implementation and project leadership.

## Work Experience
### Staff Android Software Engineer, Android Platform @ Airbnb
Jan 2022 – Present | Remote

### Senior Mobile Engineer (Android) @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Project Lead and Senior Engineer @ Carbon Five
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Project Lead and Software Engineer @ Carbon Five
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Carbon Five
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Junior Software Engineer @ Carbon Five
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Ken Shimizu Freelance
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Released an internal iOS and Android app for a International Security Detail company

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Keas
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
• Highly contributing member of a 5-man team developing a Ruby on Rails based social-health game with accompanying AngularJS mobile web and Phonegap applications.

• Built several features from the backend (business logic, schema design, API design) to the frontend (interactivity, CSS animations and styling) including biometric data collection and display, and health risk assessments on mobile web.

• Interacted with an internal Rails backend API through the AngularJS mobile web application. Created several API endpoints compliant with HATEOAS RESTful standards.

• Built several integrative backend features including a content scheduling system, and a polymorphic completion mechanism with it's own domain-specific language.

• Experience in building thoughtful and flexible tests for both Javascript and Ruby backend code.

### Aspiring Web Developer @ Dev Bootcamp
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
Learned essential coding fundamentals in Ruby on Rails, Ruby, and Javascript in a 10 week project-oriented bootcamp course.

Trained in test-driven development, and learned practical object-oriented design patterns

### Electronic Marketing Intern @ Wu-Tang Management
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Staten Island, NY
•   Contacted members of music and social media websites to develop relationships for social media start-up, Wu-World.com.  Acquired over 2,000 contacts for social media accounts tied to Wu-World.com.

•   Responsible for establishing and developing relationships with media outlets in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.  Opened lines of communications with 8 print and blog sources within those territories.

### Temporary Production Assistant @ Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•   Created in-depth logs of sports games and assisted in dictating the story and flow of the news show and post-game highlights.

•   Helped develop stories through the organization of sound bites from interviews.

•   Organized and distributed scripts for on-air news in a time-sensitive situation


## Education
### B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Foothill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kenshimizu88

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Source: https://flows.cv/kenshimizu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kenshimizu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22